Hampden Marble Quarry Serpentine Quarry

Producer in Hampden county in Massachusetts, United States with commodity Stone, Dimension
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10069162
MRDS ID W002601
Record type Site
Current site name Hampden Marble Quarry Serpentine Quarry
Related records 10121329

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -72.83146, 42.14665 (WGS84)
Relative position ONE AND ONE QUARTER MILE SOUTH OF SOLMON FALLS, WEST EDGE OF TRIASSIC CONN. VALLEY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hampden(county)

Massachusetts(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Woronoco(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Holyoke(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Albany(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Westfield River(hydrologic unit)

Lower Connecticut(hydrologic accounting unit)

Connecticut(hydrologic subregion)

New England(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Massachusetts Hampden

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Enstatite To Serpentine

Nearby scientific data

(1) -72.83146, 42.14665

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Triassic Conn. Valley

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EMERSON, B.K., 1898, "DESCRIPTION OF THE HOLYOKE QUADRANGLE, MASS. - CONN.", USGS, GEOL. ATLAS, FOLIO 50; QUARRY LOCATION AND SHORT PARAGRAPH

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ENSTATITE, BLACK SERPENTINE, DOLOMITE, MARBLE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1971 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.